inaptitude
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Origin of inaptitude
Example Sentences
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I visit Marconi less often now, but more from inaptitude than fear.
From New York Times • May 24, 2022
If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
I see that he cannot conceal his joy at the inaptitude of my avowal.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
But the Roman had a real inaptitude for the speculative: to him nothing was real that was not practical.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
To some, from a natural inaptitude, and to others, from a perverse disinclination, it may never come.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
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